Environmental, Social & Gevernance

February 2023 Week-1; OPEC Fund contributes $1.5 billion for sustainable development in 2022; Germany pledges $217 million to help Brazil defend Amazon Rainforest; EIB Group commits €17 billion for support of EU energy security and green economy; CIF approves $70 million for Colombia clean energy; EU partners with South Africa to invest €280 million in its green recovery; United, Tallgrass, and […]

The World Bank has signed an agreement with four West and Central African nations worth $311 million to fund renewable energy projects. The funds will finance around 106 megawatts (MW) of solar power generation capacity with battery energy and storage systems, and 41 MW expansion of hydroelectric capacity. The countries are Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today presents its plan to create value with sustainable impact based on focused organic growth and scalable innovation, with improved execution as the key value driver. Starting at 10:00 am CET, the company will host a webcast with Philips CEO Roy Jakobs, CFO Abhijit Bhattacharya,

The BuildESG Index provides members with proprietary data, research and recommendations to benchmark the ESG performance of private equity and venture capital firms relative to peers and the BuildESG Asset Manager Maturity Framework. BuildESG, the leading ESG insights platform and trusted ESG partner, has launched an Asset Manager benchmarking and framework solution to allow its

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Bloomberg Finance L.P. (Bloomberg) for misleading disclosures relating to its paid subscription service, BVAL, which provides daily price valuations for fixed-income securities to financial services entities. The SEC’s order finds that from at least 2016 through October 2022, Bloomberg failed to disclose to its BVAL

U.S. Bank announces the hire of Guillaume Mascotto as the company’s head of Sustainable Finance. In this new leadership role, Mascotto will build and lead a new team focused on identifying sustainable finance opportunities across the entire enterprise. Based in New York, Mascotto is part of the U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC) leadership team

NextEnergy Capital, a global solar specialist in the renewables sector, is pleased to announce the launch of its follow-on private OECD international solar strategy, NextPower V ESG. NPV ESG follows the success of its predecessor OECD international solar strategy, NextPower III ESG, launched in 2018 and closed in 2022.  NPV ESG is targeting capital commitments of

CWT, the Business-to-Business-for-Employees travel management platform announced it has appointed Richard Thompson as its Global Head of ESG and Employee Experience. Formerly CWT’s Vice President, Global Internal Communication & Culture, Richard will lead the company’s responsible business activities and continue to oversee the company’s HR communications and CWT workplace culture initiatives, while handing over global

Global Fintech leader will employ Syndio’s analytics platform to better measure, achieve and prove meaningful and lasting equity in the workplace Syndio, the world’s leading workplace equity analytics platform, announced a new partnership today with global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR). The company is employing Syndio’s technology to better enable the critical steps of measuring and deepening

Anew Climate LLC, a TPG Inc-owned provider of carbon emission reduction products to businesses, has agreed to invest as much as $640 million in carbon offset developer Terra Global Capital, the companies told Reuters on Wednesday. The carbon offset market has grown as companies seek ways to reduce their carbon footprint when they cannot curb emissions